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Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Just tried it, the results seem pretty poor, about on par with Craiyon/DALL-E Mini. I don't think OpenAI should be worried quite yet.

No it’s all about the prompt. It takes some getting used to, you have to look at a bunch of prompts from experienced users.

SD is waaay better than Craiyon. And better than Dalle2.

Check out r/StableDiffusion

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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The problem with this is that you will never know who is actually speaking. Deep fakes are already a thing, but as they get better and more accessible we will approach a world where anyone can make anyone say anything and make it hyper believable. In that world, it will be very difficult to tell what is real.

My personal hunch is that this will end up leading to a situation in which presenters do a cryptographic handshake that works to verify and prove authenticity. This isn't a new idea, and it has some very obvious drawbacks, but I don't see much of a way around the issue. The handshake could work great for something like official news releases, but for other instances that might come up in court, say, dash cam footage…

Looking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes.

Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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It will be more now. Photoshop needs some skills. With AI it gets easier and easier.

But even today, we deal correctly with it. Fakes and real photos are mingled together in 9Gag/LatestNews reports about Ukraine. Under the fakes (and the real), people ask for confirmation. Someone says it’s true, no-one believes him, until a link to a newspaper is dropped. And 9Gag isn’t the highest IQ community around, so yes, general population does distrusts photos by default until proven. They are laughed at anyw…

I have a quite different perception of 9gag. Yes, some ask for confirmation but it depends very much on the topic.

Wrong topic and facts get downvoted and the fake news prevail.

And not all links to newspaper are considered valid, especially if it's about "woke culture". Then you have to search the reasonable needle in the haystack of transphobia, homophobia and misogyny.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading. No licence will ever stop people from doing things that the licence says they can't. There will always be someone who digs into the internals and makes a version that does not respect your hopes and dreams. It's going to be bad. As I see it, within a couple years this tech will be so widespread and…

> you can fully expect your asshole friends to grab a dozen photos of you from Facebook and then make a hyperrealistic pornographic image of you with a gorilla my prediction is that, as a result, people will start assuming pics online are fake until proven otherwise.

> my prediction is that, as a result, people will start assuming pics online are fake until proven otherwise.

"That worked well for quotations." — Abraham Lincoln

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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It’s the opposite of exciting if art is your job, lemme tell you.

(OP here) I agree. I am an artist (not by trade but by lifelong obsession) in several different mediums, but also an AI engineer--so I feel a weird mixture of emotions tbh. I'm thrilled and excited but also terrified lol.

It's my fucking job. I've spent my whole fucking life getting good at drawing. I can probably manage to keep finding work but I am really not happy about what this is going to do to that place where a young artist is right at the threshold of being good enough to make it their job. Because once you're spending most of your days doing a thing, you start getting better at it a lot faster. And every place this shit gets used is a lost opportunity for an artist to get paid to do something.

I wanna fucking punch everyone involved in this thing.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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This is one of the most important moments in all of art history. Millions of people just got unconditional access to the state-of-the-art in AI text-to-image for absolutely free less the cost of hardware. I have an Nvidia GPU myself and am thrilled beyond belief with the possibilities that this opens up. Am planning on doing some deep dives into latent-space exploration algorithms and hypernetworks in the coming days…

>This is one of the most important moments in all of art history. I agree, but not for the reasons you imply. It will force real artists to differentiate themselves from AI, since the line is now sufficiently blurred. It's probably the death of an era of digital art as we know it.

Did we say the same in the 80s when audio sampling became a thing? We accepted it (after obligatory legal battles) and moved on, giving rise to the Creative Commons.

Re: Stable Diffusion Public Release

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Wait here, this shit hasnt hit France yet :) Those models are trained on artists work and put those same artists out of work. When people will register I dont think this is gonna fly.

> Wait here, this shit hasnt hit France yet. What is special about France in this case?

Labour protections/willingness to strike, I suspect they mean. But I don't buy it. I've seen far too many people who "should" be worried about this technology instead be absolutely in love with it.

Case in point, the comic artist Jens K (who, f.d, I support on Patreon): https://twitter.com/jenskstyve/status/1560360657148682242

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